From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 6 04:48:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA12411 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 04:48:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from our.domaintje.com (our.domaintje.com [194.178.252.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA12371; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 04:47:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank@our.domaintje.com) Received: from our.domaintje.com ([IPv6:::ffff:194.178.252.9] EHLO our.domaintje.com ident: IDENT-NONSENSE [port 48140]) by our.domaintje.com with ESMTP id <8340-180>; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 13:48:22 +0100 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.at (marino.ladavac@siemens.at), grog@lemis.com, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, rene@tcja.nl, arnoud.venema@ict.nl Subject: Re: RFC: Polling for interest on 2nd European (Dutch) hacker party In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 06 Mar 1998 04:23:02 PST." <25165.889186982@time.cdrom.com> Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 13:48:15 +0100 From: Frank Ederveen Message-Id: <19980306124822Z8340-180+150@our.domaintje.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mr. Jordan wrote: >We stopped going to CeBIT when the organizers forbade us from selling >CDROMs, something which used to basically pay for going to the show. This might be a difficult issue, but did you consider getting more sponsorship from companies yet? I looked at the website and there aren't too many sponsors listed. Not as many as I would expect atleast. I have talked to some people here about making a small budget for sponsoring of 'free' projects which we find very usefull like FreeBSD, Squid, Diablo, Apache, etc. and I don't think it would be impossible. There must be plenty of other happy users who might be willing to chip in a bit. Escpecially if that would improve support for things like SMP and RAID; things needed for larger machines. Of course how to spend the money would be up to you people. There was some discussion earlier about getting someone to do the less fun bits for which it's hard to find volunteers? Just a thought, FrankE To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message